Pulp Fiction, 1942 · page 32 of 116
10 Story Detective, July 1942 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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# Filmtown Fadeout This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring a black-and-white illustration at the top and prose text below. The story, by Robert Turner, concerns Rocky Rhodes, a famous detective sergeant whose Hollywood career derails when he's cast in a homicide scenario instead of his own life story. The visible text describes an incident where Rhodes is suddenly attacked—thrown through a window by someone named Biggs, a servant. The prose uses vivid, colloquial language typical of pulp crime fiction, describing the physical altercation in exaggerated detail with imagery like "buck teeth clicked like castanets."
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Rocky Rhodes, famous detective sergeant, had agreed to enact d his life story for the films. But Rhodes’ Hollywood career as E screen star was sidetracked when he signed up to play the lead in a homicide seenario. TT that to always happened like that to “Rocky” Rhodes. They would hit him all of a sudden, hike Abe Dortmann’s little Negro house boy did. One minute Rhodes was standing in the garden of this palatial Hollywood home, having a cigaret away from the madness of the party inside and the next he was get- ting it in the neck. That was how Biggs, the dark little servant, landed. 30 He crashed through the screen of a second story window, dewn through the darkness and astraddle Rhodes’ Shoulders like a kid playing pick- aback. They scrambled in the soft earth of a flower bed, a tangled two- some. Rhodes bounced up first, yanked Biggs to his feet. He shook him until buck teeth clicked like eastanets and his eyes rolled Inthe brown ping-pong balls. COMclooo SS (C(O) im